Role

• CURIE: gmeow:Role
• IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/Role
• Category: class
• Defined by: gmeow:slices/organization
• Box roles: TBox role (What is this?)

A function or position an agent plays in some context, such as a job title or organizational role. A gufo:RoleMixin played within a gmeow:Membership, never a subclass of the agent who plays it (Principle 9 — roles are values, not kinds of person).

Structure

Subclass of: gufo:FunctionalComplex

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:Role as a specialized kind of gufo:FunctionalComplex. Add statement metadata or a standpoint when the assertion needs provenance, confidence, or vantage.

Projects To

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: org, schema

Linkages

Generated from the canonical mapping DSL. SSSOM files are the generated public interchange form for term equivalences.

Term Equivalences

Projection Coverage

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use to name a function or position an agent plays in a context — a job title, board seat, or organizational role — and bind it to a gmeow:Membership via gmeow:hasRole.

Avoid when

• Avoid subclassing an agent by role (a CFO is not a subclass of Person — Principle 9) and avoid bundling the role with a specific organization; that seat is a gmeow:Post.

How to use

• Mint a gmeow:Role, attach it to the relator with gmeow:hasRole on a gmeow:Membership; when the role is tied to one organization as a holder-independent seat, model that as a gmeow:Post bundling this Role and a gmeow:Organization.

Examples

• ex:cfoRole a gmeow:Role; rdfs:label "CFO"@en.